At least their cars have proper LODs, so having a main model with (too) much detail doesn't really break the bank. Cars with 350k triangles and no LODs are much more hungry. But 851k triangles...yeah, I kind of agree - that's excessive.
LODless cars, or to be clear, LODless racecars used to make me so angry.
But Simplygon is simply gone...now it's even more annoying to LOD because you need extra stuff.
Plus you have to take account that good LODding come from good modding, ergo if a car's parts are well separated LODding is waaaay easier and logic.
Modders were LOD-lazy before, imagine now.
There's also the elephant in the room. The Nothing-Beats-A-Jet2-Hotlapping-Simulator mentality.
You get folks who don't care about the looks of the car. Then you get folks who step up the game pressing their noses against a chassis.
Then, few illuminated revolutionaries see a car at 100meters and think "I have to squint my eyes to see that, otherwise is just a dark booger on wheels." and then realize "OH! that's why LOD models look like dark boogers on wheels! GPU economy, woooooow!"
There are even few PILLARS of the modding economy releasing their LODless great cars, and writing something along the lines of "take this, has no LODs, guess that makes me a bad guy, uh?".
That's a weird flex to...no one I guess?
Anyway take it as an empty stat, in 620 racecars I got barely 10/20 LODless cars.
All praise and glory to the LOD